Engineering & Mining Journal

JAN 2016

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JANUARY 2016 • E&MJ; 39 www.e-mj.com report to maintenance. The miner's respons- es will feed into enterprise resource planning and get logged for any future audits." According to the system's developers, MineSafe will integrate with most enter- prise systems, including SCADA, MQTT and others. The solution can also be integrated with existing sensors, and configured to suit the mine-specific needs of the customer. Also, in early December, work site management solutions provider Lightship announced that KGHM International, which is working toward development of the Ajax copper-gold project near Kamloops, British Columbia, will be using its Lightship appli- cation to manage field employees working on mine development. The application, according to the company—also based in Kamloops—provides site managers with a real-time, bird's-eye view of an entire work- site. It tracks and relays sensor and employ- ee information, and includes a highly advanced communications system. Some of the key benefits for KGHM include: • Visualization: Managers will be able to see the location of their team and con- tractors on-site. People will appear by name on the site inside the areas creat- ed and will be searchable by skill set, certification or title. Managers will be able to create areas that can control access to certain people and send alarms when people enter or exit. • Communication: Managers can call/text/ email workers in the field from their office computers, or communicate directly through the application using direct messages. Managers can mass phone/text/email all of the workers in an area or just those with specific skill sets or designations. • Safety: Lightship enables the automation of site check-ins, which are currently per- formed manually by managers. Check-in intervals can be changed based on the time or area. Should an incident occur, Lightship will automatically find the best responders as pre-defined by site admini- strators, dramatically reducing emer- gency response times. Responses can be customized to different times, locations or incident types. Jae Reichel, CEO of Lightship, said, "Lightship was originally designed to work with existing systems so the opportunity to work with a mine from the ground up is very exciting. As a joint development part- ner, the company will not only assist in enhancing the current Lightship solution but, crucially, will help inform the features of the next generation of mine site man- agement technology." Additional features and benefits deliv- ered by Lightship include: • Team, fleet and equipment management: Tracks and communicates with workers, vehicles and equipment. • Task management: Keeps track of tasks that need to be done, can automatically assign new tasks, and keeps track of who is working on which task. • Asset performance: Allows monitoring of the usage and downtime of equipment as well as performance levels. • Lone worker solution: Allows managers to monitor and communicate with workers who are alone or in potentially dangerous locations/circumstances. • Reporting: Compiles and displays com- prehensive event data. • Event history: Keeps record and allows recall of all past events and information. • Sensor integration: Integrates worksite sen- sor data into the system in a useful way. • Device agnostic: Has the ability to integrate any customer device into the application. O P E R AT I N G S T R AT E G I E S

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